Lent is a season characterized by fasting, abstinence, prayer and almsgivingdays in which parishioners prepare for the Easter.
Its duration is 40 days and is based on the symbol for the number forty in the Bible. In it, the forty days of the flood and also the forty years of the march of the Jewish people through the desert are told, as well as the forty days of Moses and Elijah on the mountain, and finally, of the forty days in the what Jesus spent in the desert before beginning his public life.
In the Bible the number four is material universe symbolfollowed by zeros that signify the time of our life on earth, as well as the trials and difficulties that are experienced in the midst of it.
Abstinence and fasting during Lent
This year Lent begins on Wednesday, March 2.. It has five Sundays plus Palm Sunday, in whose readings themes such as conversion, sin, penance and forgiveness.
The calendar of these Sundays in 2022 is distributed as follows:
• First Sunday of Lent: March 6, 2022
• Second Sunday of Lent: March 13, 2022
• Third Sunday of Lent: March 20, 2022
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How Catholics can live Lent in times of coronavirus
• Fourth Sunday of Lent: March 27, 2022
• Fifth Sunday of Lent: April 3, 2022
• Palm Sunday: April 10, 2022
What is the relationship between carnivals and Lent?
Parishioners recommend experiencing it as a time of meditation and penance. On these dates some faithful prefer to fast and other types of customs aligned with Christian belief. In this way they emulate Jesus when he was in the desert. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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